Donnella White

An Illinois woman, charged with using stolen credit card information to make $3,000 in purchases, was sentenced to time served in Butler County Court on Tuesday.

Donnella White, 29, of Chicago was sentenced to 3 to 12 months in the Butler County Prison by Judge Timothy McCune.

She was given time served credit since Sept. 3, and will be released upon the completion of a parole plan.

White also was sentenced to 30 months probation, which McCune allowed to be transferred to Illinois, and ordered to pay a $100 fine, court costs and restitution.

She entered guilty pleas to felony conspiracy to commit access device fraud, access device fraud and receiving stolen property shortly before being sentenced.

White also was initially charged with misdemeanor possession of an instrument of crime by Cranberry Township police, which was dismissed as part of the plea.

The charges stem from an incident on Sept. 2 at the Applebees restaurant in Cranberry Township when two women attempted to use fraudulent credit cards.

The affidavit of probable cause states that the women attempted to purchase 20, $50 gift cards using a Green Dot card, which was denied.

Following the incident, the manager of the restaurant received a phone call from a man stating that he received an alert that someone attempted to purchase $1,000 in gift cards from the location using his information.

Police said White and the other woman, who was not named in court documents, were found in possession of Green Dot cards, which “are typically used to make purchases with someone else's credit card information,” the document states.

Inside White's vehicle, police said, multiple other gift cards were found, totaling $3,000.

Police said White admitted to using stolen credit card information to purchase the gift cards throughout Western Pennsylvania.

Also found was a list of credit card information with Pennsylvania addresses and email addresses, the document states.